Mike Novasio

Juna brings on-demand pronunciation and phonics expertise to ELL teachers. As a comprehensive pronunciation solution, Juna combines a lot of relevant technologies and makes them easy to navigate, saving teachers a lot of time. In the current ESL classroom, a teacher might have one tab open for a dictionary, one tab open for an LMS tool they built to model certain sounds / words, a lesson-based pronunciation module that is part of a larger program, all of which is competing with other aspects of language learning, such as vocab, grammar, listening comprehension, etc. As a stand-alone product, We havent seen another service that combines the myriad demands of pronunciation as simply and effectively as Juna. If there is, wed love to learn about it!

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of and representing the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space. Gaingels also supports its companies with a diverse talent and capital pipeline and provides an internal diverse board member recruitment advisory to help bring more diversity and representation within private boards. Gaingels invests in companies with diverse/LGBTQIA+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in other high-growth companies resolved on building more inclusive teams. Gaingels is an ardent supporter the Diversity Term Sheet Rider Initiative to increase access to venture funding events for non-traditional check writers, and regularly co-invests with select VC leads across a variety of sectors, from technology, to B2B, healthcare and consumer, in competitive and over-subscribed rounds from Seed to Growth/pre-IPO. For more information visit www.gaingels.com.

Juna brings on-demand pronunciation and phonics expertise to ELL teachers. As a comprehensive pronunciation solution, Juna combines a lot of relevant technologies and makes them easy to navigate, saving teachers a lot of time. In the current ESL classroom, a teacher might have one tab open for a dictionary, one tab open for an LMS tool they built to model certain sounds / words, a lesson-based pronunciation module that is part of a larger program, all of which is competing with other aspects of language learning, such as vocab, grammar, listening comprehension, etc. As a stand-alone product, We havent seen another service that combines the myriad demands of pronunciation as simply and effectively as Juna. If there is, wed love to learn about it!

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of and representing the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space. Gaingels also supports its companies with a diverse talent and capital pipeline and provides an internal diverse board member recruitment advisory to help bring more diversity and representation within private boards. Gaingels invests in companies with diverse/LGBTQIA+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in other high-growth companies resolved on building more inclusive teams. Gaingels is an ardent supporter the Diversity Term Sheet Rider Initiative to increase access to venture funding events for non-traditional check writers, and regularly co-invests with select VC leads across a variety of sectors, from technology, to B2B, healthcare and consumer, in competitive and over-subscribed rounds from Seed to Growth/pre-IPO. For more information visit www.gaingels.com.

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